Travel Blog Greece

King Midas, one of the most famous Greek myths, is about a king who turned into gold everything he touched.

Aristaeus, born in Kissavos, was the culture hero and God of Greek Mythology that discovered many useful arts, including bee-keeping.

Prof. George Chrousos is one of the 250 most prominent clinical investigators and the 37th most cited scientist in the world.

Dimitris Horn [1921 – 1998], son of the playwright Pantelis Horn, was a Greek performer in theatre and cinema.

Pavlos Kountouriotis [1855 – 1935] was a Greek admiral during the Balkan Wars and the 1st and 3rd President of the 2nd Hellenic Republic.

Manos Katrakis, born in Kissamos Chania Crete, was a famous Greek actor of the 20th century.

Manto Mavrogenous, born in 1796 in Mykonos and died in 1848, is a Greek famous heroine of the Greek War of Independence.

Vangelis Papathanassiou, known professionally as "Vangelis", is a famous Greek composer of electronic and orchestral music.

Michael Tositsas [born in Metsovo in 1787] was a Greek businessman and benefactor, considered to be the father of Hellenism in Egypt.

Sappho [630 – 570 BC] is a famous archaic Greek poet from Lesbos. Sappho's poetry was lyric, and she is known for her love poems.

Markos Vamvakaris [1905 in Syros – 1972] is a famous rebetiko music composer and musician.

Dimitris Papaioannou is a Greek theater director, choreographer and visual artist.

Manthos Rizaris and Georgios Rizaris were Greek successful merchants and great benefactors, members of Filiki Eteria.

Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos [1935 – 2012] was a famous Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer.

Homer is the legendary author of the two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, the central works of Greek literature.

Stamatios Krimigis, born in Vrontados village of Chios island, is a Greek-American scientist, expert in space exploration

Ioannis Kapodistrias [born in 1776] was a Greek politician and diplomat who had a long, respected and distinguished career.

Eugenios Eugenidis [born in 1882 in Didymoticho] was a famous Greek shipping entrepreneur of the 20th century.

Prodromos Bodosakis [born in 1890] was a very important person of the Greek industrial history of the 20th century.

Theophilos Hatzimihail [born in Lesvos around 1870], widely known as "Theophilos", was a major folk painter of modern Greek art.

Georgios Theotokis [born in 1844 in Corfu] was a Greek politician and the 29th Prime Minister of Greece.

Yorgos Lanthimos is an awarded Greek director, producer and screenwriter for cinema and theatre.

Kostis Palamas, often called the "national poet of Greece", was a great representative of the Greek literary generation of the 1880s.

Nikos Kazantzakis was a famous Greek writer, considered a giant of modern Greek literature, who was 9 times nominated for the Nobel Prize.